Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

2020-04-17 Thread Richard Melanson
@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Reng Winfried Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2020 3:23 AM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. Subject: Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates. Hi, I also use PureText. Very handy, not only for FrameMaker (e.g. Outlook, Excel, etc.)! http://stevemiller.net

Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

2020-04-16 Thread Reng Winfried
Of Katherine Witbeck Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 7:48 PM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. Subject: Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates. I use PureText for copying and pasting as plain text. It works with everything I use

Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

2020-04-15 Thread Lin Sims
nt: April 15, 2020 3:27 PM > To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. > Subject: Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates. > > I thought about this way but I didn't trust the copy/paste function to > only bring over text. You ever have any problems after wi

Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

2020-04-15 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Sent: April 15, 2020 3:27 PM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. Subject: Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates. I thought about this way but I didn't trust the copy/paste function to only bring over text. You ever have any problems after with garbage left over from

Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

2020-04-15 Thread Richard Melanson
for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. Subject: Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates. For a faster experience of copy/pasting text, I would use the tip to adjust your maker.ini to stick TEXT at the beginning of the ClipboardPriorityFormats= line (ahead of the default UNICODE bit

Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

2020-04-15 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain
When I did this in the past (Word --> FM), I also followed the same approach that Lin mentions - it is the one that prevents confusing issues later on within FM or generating PDF, etc. There is usually some crud hanging around that could cause problems otherwise. Of course, now that I am using

Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

2020-04-15 Thread Craig Ede
The nice thing is that once you get it into FrameMaker you will know what everything is. A silver lining of sorts. Craig ...snipped.. The Word file I inherited does not use any formatting standard, it's just a 193 pages of mish mash of whatever any given editor

Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

2020-04-15 Thread Katherine Witbeck
I use PureText for copying and pasting as plain text. It works with everything I use. On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 1:38 PM Jeff Coatsworth < jeff.coatswo...@jonasclub.com> wrote: > For a faster experience of copy/pasting text, I would use the tip to > adjust your maker.ini to stick TEXT at the

Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

2020-04-15 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
t; Text route. From: Framers on behalf of Lin Sims Sent: April 15, 2020 1:23 PM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. Subject: Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates. And that is exactly why I go the text route. If I didn't create that Word

Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

2020-04-15 Thread Lin Sims
And that is exactly why I go the text route. If I didn't create that Word file, I don't know whether the person who did set it up right or not. Usually the answer is "not". (On a side note, if you set up a Word template, create your own numbering list styles and assign your own number styles to

Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

2020-04-15 Thread Richard Melanson
division and shipped the products and docs off to teams in India. -FR From: Framers on behalf of Ben Anderson Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 12:19 PM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. Subject: Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates

Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

2020-04-15 Thread Fred Ridder
To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. Subject: Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates. Hi Rick, I haven't used any templates, but what I have done is renamed the para tags and any character tags in the word doc to match what I have in frame (i.e., Heading 1 to Heading One

Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

2020-04-15 Thread Lin Sims
I think it's more like no one has "templates" so didn't feel they could help you. Frame since, I think, 2017, has a Word Import facility that allows you to map Word styles to Frame tags, which can do a lot of the work for you as long as you have a file set up with the tags you want. Check Barb

Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

2020-04-15 Thread Ben Anderson
Hi Rick, I haven't used any templates, but what I have done is renamed the para tags and any character tags in the word doc to match what I have in frame (i.e., Heading 1 to Heading One) and then imported the doc file into frame. It seems to work pretty well. The only thing is, you'll have